fueled by hopium
- idiom
- Slang
:
impulsado por hopium
- The startup's projections seemed fueled by hopium rather than supported by data.
Examples
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Many retail traders remained fueled by hopium despite the mounting losses in the market.
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His campaign promises were dismissed as fueled by hopium by many political analysts.
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His decisions were fueled by hopium rather than logic.
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The company's future seems fueled by hopium after the last report.
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Despite the significant challenges ahead, her optimism felt fueled by hopium rather than reality.
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The investor's enthusiasm for the struggling company appeared fueled by hopium despite its recent poor performance.
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Many fans were fueled by hopium regarding their team's chances of winning the championship, ignoring the previous losses.
Synonyms
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5.1
Expecting only very good results that are unlikely to happen
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9.9
Very optimistic in a way that ignores real problems
Antonyms
How Realistic
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3.7
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1.8
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5.1
- Slang
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7.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
fuel + by + hopium
The pattern 'fueled by X' is transparently compositional (meaning driven or strengthened by X), but the key noun 'hopium' is a slang/neologism (hope + -ium/opium) that encodes an addictive or unrealistic form of hope. A B1 learner who knows the parts could plausibly infer an idea of 'being driven by unrealistic/addictive hope', but because 'hopium' is metaphorical and culture-specific slang rather than a standard lexical item, the overall phrase is not fully predictable.
Etymology
The phrase fueled by hopium comes from a simple image: someone is being fueled like a car by hopium, a made-up 'drug' made from the word 'hope' that keeps people too hopeful. So the phrase means being driven by unrealistic hope, even when the facts say otherwise.